Illustration: Beside the concrete step of a Japanese house, an ant hauls a rice-cracker crumb several times wider than its head toward a narrow gap in the soil. Its six legs brace against the gritty surface, and its elbowed antennae extend around the awkward load.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

アリ

ari

ant

Example sentences

  1. アリには足あしが6本ほんあります。

    Ants have six legs.

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  2. ケーキにはアリがたかっていた。

    The cake was crawling with ants.

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  3. アリの命いのちを軽視けいしするな。

    Don’t think little of the ants' lives.

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